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Will there be more hydrogen atoms or helium atoms in our sun in 4 billion years?
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What will happen to the relative amounts of hydrogen and helium in the sun over the next few billion years?
The sun is ferociously converting 600,000 tons of Hydrogen into Helium every second, so after billions of years the star gets has less Hydrogen and more Helium.
The sun burns hydrogenate an helium to make what?
The sun fuses hydrogen to make helium. It will be several billion years before the sun fuses helium to make heavier elements.
What will happen to the amounts of hydrogen and helium in the sun over the next billion years?
the hydrogen and helium in the sun will continue to thermonuclear fuse until they end up creating lead, collapsing in on itself because of its immense mass.
What is our sun fueled by?
Our Sun, as with all main-sequence stars, is heated by the energy of fusing hydrogen atom to make helium atoms. The gigantic gravity of a main-sequence star causes hydrogen atoms to be smashed together, or 'fused'. The huge heat that results keeps the Sun puffed up to its huge size. In another 4.5 billion years, more or less, the hydrogen will be largely used up, and the Sun will shrink to a point that helium atoms are smashed together, creating lithium atoms. When all the lithium atoms have been largely smashed together and used up, the Sun will shrink again, and beryllium atoms will result.
Why won't the sun run out of energy?
It will, but not for several billion years. The sun is powered by nuclear fusion, converting hydrogen into helium. The sheer mass of the hydrogen is enough to sustain it for quite some time.
What is nuclear fusion in the Sun?
This is the fusing of hydrogen atoms to form helium atoms, and in some cases heavier elements as well. The dominant reaction in our Sun is the combining of hydrogen isotope atoms to form helium atoms. Deuterium atoms, which are hydrogen atoms which have a neutron, are forced together to form a helium atom, which is two protons and two neutrons, and some energy is produced. The Sun is slowing using up its supply of hydrogen, but there is enough to last for at least another two or three billion years.
What are examples of energy converting to another?
if you count space the sun has hydrogen atoms and converts them into helium atoms and in another billion years or so the sun will probably burn itself out and guess what i am only 9 years old
Will thew sun burn out?
The sun is using up its supply of hydrogen because the hydrogen atoms are being converted into helium atoms. Only seven tenths of one percent of the available hydrogen actually converts into heat energy, and the best estimate is that it will take another one hundred billion years for all the hydrogen to be used up. So, at the end of one hundred billion years, the sun will, in fact, burn out.
What were the gases in the air 4.5 billion years ago?
4.5 billion years ago the earth was a molten ball surrounded by hydrogen and helium.
What will happen to the relative amounts of hydrogen and helium in the sun over the next few billion years?
The sun is ferociously converting 600,000 tons of Hydrogen into Helium every second, so after billions of years the star gets has less Hydrogen and more Helium.
The sun burns hydrogenate an helium to make what?
The sun fuses hydrogen to make helium. It will be several billion years before the sun fuses helium to make heavier elements.
Why will the sun burn out?
The sun generates energy by fusing hydrogen into helium. Eventually it will run out of hydrogen. However, this won't happen for several billion years.
How will the sun burn out?
In a sense. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. In about 5 billion years that hydrogen will burn out. Over the following two billion years the sun will fuse helium in the core and hydrogen in a surrounding shell before shedding its outer remnants and leaving behind a degenerate remnant called a white dwarf.
What will happen to the amounts of hydrogen and helium in the sun over the next billion years?
the hydrogen and helium in the sun will continue to thermonuclear fuse until they end up creating lead, collapsing in on itself because of its immense mass.
When would the sun go out?
When the Helium, morphing into hydrogen and causing nuclear reactions runs out. So appoximately 5 billion years.
What is our sun fueled by?
Our Sun, as with all main-sequence stars, is heated by the energy of fusing hydrogen atom to make helium atoms. The gigantic gravity of a main-sequence star causes hydrogen atoms to be smashed together, or 'fused'. The huge heat that results keeps the Sun puffed up to its huge size. In another 4.5 billion years, more or less, the hydrogen will be largely used up, and the Sun will shrink to a point that helium atoms are smashed together, creating lithium atoms. When all the lithium atoms have been largely smashed together and used up, the Sun will shrink again, and beryllium atoms will result.
What will happen after 5 billion years to the sun?
Our Sun is about 5 billion years old. In another 5 billion years, we expect the Sun to expand into a red giant star as the hydrogen in the core becomes exhausted and the Sun begins to fuse helium. Helium fusion generates more energy than hydrogen fusion, which will cause the Sun to expand.
